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Majdal Shams (AFP) – Mourners gather in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams after a deadly strike on 27 July killed 12 young people aged between 10 and 16. Israel has blamed the attack on Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, which has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces since the start of the Gaza war in early October. The Iran-backed group said it had “no connection” to the incident. TO COMPLETE VIDI36632E2_EN

Caracas (AFP) – Nicolas Maduro claims victory in Venezuela’s presidential election, but the opposition rejects the official results and vows to not rest until “the will of the people of Venezuela is respected”.

Caracas (AFP) – Venezuela’s opposition has accused authorities of preventing people from observing the vote count at polling stations. It rejects the official election results which saw Nicolas Maduro re-elected with 51.2 percent of the vote.

Caracas (AFP) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro won re-election with 51.2 percent of votes cast, the electoral council announced, after a campaign tainted by claims of opposition intimidation and fears of fraud.

Petare (Venezuela) (AFP) – A polling station in Petare, in the Metropolitan District of Caracas, starts to count the votes in Venezuela’s presidential election, after millions turned out to cast their ballots in a fraught presidential election with socialist incumbent Nicolas Maduro facing the biggest challenge yet to his party’s 25-year hold on power. IMAGES

Petare (Venezuela) (AFP) – Polling stations close in Venezuela’s presidential election after millions turned out to cast their ballots in a fraught presidential election with socialist incumbent Nicolas Maduro facing the biggest challenge yet to his party’s 25-year hold on power. IMAGES

Caracas (AFP) – Polling stations close in Venezuela’s presidential election after millions turned out to cast their ballots in a fraught presidential election with socialist incumbent Nicolas Maduro facing the biggest challenge yet to his party’s 25-year hold on power. IMAGES

Caracas (AFP) – Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado arrives at Caracas polling station to cast her ballot, as the country votes between continuity in President Nicolas Maduro or change in rival Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia amid high tension following the incumbent’s threat of a “bloodbath” if he loses. IMAGES

Paris (AFP) – The hot-air balloon-like cauldron, lit at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games by former athlete Marie-José Pérec and judoka Teddy Riner, remains accessible to the public until the end of the Games on August 11, in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. The flame functions electrically as light projects onto a cloud of water, within easy reach of the public during the day before rising 60 meters above the ground at nightfall.

Tokyo (AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says on Sunday 28 July that there was “every indication” that the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was behind a rocket strike in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights that killed 12 young people. “Every indication is that indeed the rocket was from Hezbollah. We stand by Israel’s right to defend its citizens from terrorist attacks,” Blinken told reporters in Japan.